Possible To Reclaim Space After Rebuilding Indexes
Mar 19, 2015Is it possible to reclaim space after rebuilding indexes(shrinking is not an option).
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Unallocated Space Due To Rebuilding Indexes
Sep 26, 2007
Hi all,
When I am rebuilding the indexes on the tables, I am getting lot of free space( unallocated) on the database.
Before rebuilding the indexes , the size of the database = 385 Gb
After rebuilding the indexes, the size jumps to = 572 Gb (i.e.) This means 187 Gb of unallocated space .
The Command use to rebuild indexes is:
USE [databasename]
GO
ALTER INDEX [PK_index] ON [dbo].[tablename] REBUILD WITH
( PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = ON, ONLINE = OFF )
GO
So, every time we rebuild indexes, we have to shrink the database
(or)
Is there anything else ,I should be doing.
Thanks.
SQL 2012 :: Reclaim The Unused Table Space?
Sep 15, 2014currently stuck with an issue where I need to reclaim the unused table space in SQL server.
ISSUE: Due to database size issue we have moved all the images from database to filesystem and want to reclaim the unused space now....I have tried shrinking the database and rebuild the indexes but didn't see any difference in the table or database size.
Similarly I have identified many Non clustered indexes on big transactional tables(~ 4 million records) that where not used since GO live 1 year back, so I wanted to drop these indexes to cut down the performance and maintenance overhead , so my question is will dropping these indexes reduces the database size?
Reclaim Unused Space / Rebuild Table
Dec 30, 2014best method to my issue regarding unused space. SQL SERVER 2014 BI EDITTION..I have a table that showed 62% Data, 7% unallocated, and 29% unused space.I ran the ALTER TABLE <table name> REBUILD, which changed it to 32% data and 67% unused.What I do with this table monthly and what I believe is causing this unused space issue is this:Every 1st of the month I get a csv file that holds around 3.2 million rows/15 columns of data. About 3 gbs every time.It's 13 months of data. I remove the last 12 months from the current table and import the new 13 month data.I do this twice a month and have no choice because the data is constantly updated and why we get it twice a month.So I am deleting around 6 gbs of data a month as well as adding around 6 gbs of data a month.
I believe this is why I end up with so much unused space, but just found the REBUILD command, which worked but now a small hit on performance and have too much space in the current table. I have read several times that shrinking the file is no good, but what other way to get rid of the extra space in this table? Also, the table doesn't have any indexes or primary key because of duplicates.
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Aug 2, 2006Hello,I tried to make what one reply advice to recover the disk space afterDROPed columns but it doesn't work. I did DBCC DBREINDEX to the tablebut nothing changes.Any other solution?Ignacio
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Rebuilding Indexes
Jan 14, 2002Hi!
I was wondering what kind of locks (if any) SQL Server 2000 holds on tables while rebuilding clustered and non-clustered indexes.
Thanks!
Rebuilding Indexes
Sep 20, 2000Do anyone know how to rebuild indexes on the maintenance plan??
I would like to automate rebuilding my indexes on the database about once every month.
I know you can manually do this by using DBCC DBREINDEX. This is to long and tedious.
Thanks in advance!
Rebuilding Indexes
Dec 2, 1999All,
I have scheduled dbreindex command to run on an clustered indexed on a very large table over night, so far this as failed to complete successfully. I think it may have something to do with the amount of space available in the device; the table is approx 238mb in size and the available disk space left in the device is 200 mb.
Does anyone know how much space is required to reindex a table/index this size and if it is required on the same device as the table or in tempdb.
Or even better, if anyone can explain the inter-workings of how the dbreindex command reorgs the table.
Thanks Mathew
Rebuilding Indexes
Feb 23, 2004Hello all,
I need to diagnose a problem, this Sunday a regular Database Maintenance plan which is supposed to rebuild indexes took exactly 6 hours and 32 minutes. Now that’s a hell lot of time and during all that process users were denied access to those tables. This is a production server. I want to know what caused that plan to run for so long and how can I avoid this to happen again plus if it ever happens again how can I make sure that atleast it doesn’t lock tables. I know DBCC INDEXDEFRAG doesn’t lock tables but how can I make Database Maintenance plan to run DBCC INDEXDEFRAG instead of DBCC DBREINDEX but more importantly why it took 6 hours.
Thanks all
Rebuilding Indexes
Jan 14, 2002(Oops, sorry I posted this on the SQL 7 discussion earlier).
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I was wondering what kind of locks (if any) SQL Server 2000 holds on tables while rebuilding clustered and non-clustered indexes.
Thanks!
Rebuilding Indexes
Feb 23, 2004Hello all,
I need to diagnose a problem, this Sunday a regular Database Maintenance plan which is supposed to rebuild indexes took exactly 6 hours and 32 minutes. Now that’s a hell lot of time and during all that process users were denied access to those tables. This is a production server. I want to know what caused that plan to run for so long and how can I avoid this to happen again plus if it ever happens again how can I make sure that atleast it doesn’t lock tables. I know DBCC INDEXDEFRAG doesn’t lock tables but how can I make Database Maintenance plan to run DBCC INDEXDEFRAG instead of DBCC DBREINDEX but more importantly why it took 6 hours.
Thanks all
Rebuilding Indexes
Jun 13, 2008Hello,
I'm new to rebuilding and reorg indexes. I used the standard report feature in 2005 to look up Index Physical Statistics on one db. I found recommendation to rebuild a few indexes that contain a number of fragments. I created a maint. task, I know maint. tasks are not a cure-all but so far I am just testing the waters. I created two tasks, one to rebuild and another to reorg. After I ran the job, I looked at the report and it still showed recommendation to rebuild the indexes. What is a better solution for my case?
Rebuilding Indexes
Feb 25, 2007Hi,
I have recenlty had to rebuild the indexes for the entire database as they were running a little slow. It prompted me to further investigate the health of the indexes on the database. I have been using the sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats view to do this. I had a query with regards to the avg_fragmentation_in_percent column that the view displays. I have rebuilt all the indexes and for some of the indexes the fragmentation value remains the same. The following is an example of what is returned by the sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats for a single index:
Table, IndexName, avg_fragmentation_in_percent, avg_page_space_used_in_percent
Links, PK_Links, 77.7777777777778, 97.1501606127996
Links, PK_Links, 0, 1.42080553496417
I do not understand why this index the fragmentation is so high even though I have rebuilt it. It is not just this index it occurs for other indexes as well. What could be some of the factors that are causing this to occur?
Rebuilding Indexes
Jul 20, 2005HiI got the advice to rebuild the indexes on the databases once a year.Espesially if the database have grown much. The question is: How do Ido that?If I try to run the indexscript wich was run when the databases werecreated, I only get the message that the indexes already exists.Are there a command to automatically rebuild the indexesautomatically?Roger
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Sep 14, 2006Aight, so I added a full text catalog and a full text index for one specific column and table in my database.Now the issue is, whenever I rebuild it, it locks the full text index forever, making it unsuable. Now, there are only 30,000 records i need to search, so it isn't like there is this massive amount of data. What am I doing wrong to where it is locking the index and disallowing me to use the stored procedure that does the searching?
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Jul 23, 2015Currently we are facing some performance issue while accessing the archive data from the archive tables. the archive table is hugh and it contains around 100,000,000 records and this archive table is being used in few reports and in our commission cycles too. since we are facing performance issues we are rebuilding index once in a week on all the indexes on this archive table.
We have 1 clustered index and 5 non clustered indexes, every time when we rebuild all these indexes on this table it is taking more time, more often rebuilding the clustered index itself is taking approx. 1hr which is consuming more time. wanted to know is there any useful to rebuild clustered indexes or not, if yes then what would be the better way. if not then do we need to rebuild only non clustered indexes.
Rebuilding Large Database Tables And Indexes
Jul 7, 2015I have come across a database system which isn't designed to work optimally. It is fairly large (~400GB) and performance of loading and querying is degrading (improper data types, fragmented indexes, non unique clustering key and other problems). So, I have quite a task in front of me, but I am up for the challenge. I figure this is not a unique situation, many of us would have come across this before. I have done this before too, but only for smaller databases, some of the operations here I expect to take a couple of hours or more to complete (depending on load/infrastructure speed etc, I know).
My plan is thus:
+ Take a full backup of the database
+ Set the recovery model of the DB to simple
+ Drop non clustered indexes
+ Drop clustered indexes
+ Remove PKs (wrong data types, too large!)
+ Narrow data types (add new column, update column in batches to old value, rename new column to old column)
+ Add PKs, which will create clustered indexes automatically based on PK ID
+ Create non clustered indexes
+ Run a SHRINKDB (normal operations I would never do this, but this is a special case, ensure log file is truncated to a logical size especially after all those table modifications...)
+ Set the recovery model of the DB to Full
+ Ensure everything works OK or better
ReBuilding Indexes Automatically Base On Fragmentation Value
Feb 25, 2008
I am trying to automate my index rebuild and reorg based off of the percentage of fragmentation level. The first time you run it you have to change the alter proce Sp_NCRNRecreate then change it to Alter proc. It seems to run okay no errors but it doesn't seem to actually rebuild them. Please take a look and let me know if you see a program error somewhere. I would like create this sp to run automatically
use master
GO
Alter PROC sp_NCR_RecreateIndexes @AutoRun bit=0 AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @DatabaseName varchar(128), @SchemaName varchar(128), @objectName varchar(128), @IndexName varchar(128), @PercentFragmented float, @command varchar(max)
SELECT db_name(s.database_id) as DatabaseName, schema_name(o.schema_id) as SchemaName, o.name as TableName, i.name as IndexName, s.avg_fragmentation_in_percent AS PercentFragmented
INTO #IndexesToRebuild
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (db_id(), Null, NULL, NULL, NULL) s
INNER JOIN sys.objects o ON s.object_id=o.object_id
INNER JOIN sys.indexes i ON s.object_id=i.object_id AND s.index_id=i.index_id
WHERE s.avg_fragmentation_in_percent > 10.0 AND s.index_id > 0
SELECT * FROM #IndexesToRebuild
DECLARE IndexCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT DatabaseName, SchemaName, TableName, IndexName, PercentFragmented FROM #IndexesToRebuild
OPEN IndexCursor
FETCH IndexCursor INTO @DatabaseName, @SchemaName, @objectName, @IndexName, @PercentFragmented
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
SELECT @command = 'ALTER INDEX ' + @indexname +' ON ' + @databaseName + '.' + @schemaname + '.' + @objectName + CASE WHEN @PercentFragmented<30 THEN ' REORGANIZE' ELSE ' REBUILD' END;
print @command
IF @AutoRun=1
EXEC(@command)
FETCH IndexCursor INTO @DatabaseName, @SchemaName, @objectName, @IndexName, @PercentFragmented
END
--SELECT * FROM #IndexStats
END
GO
EXEC sys.sp_MS_marksystemobject sp_NCR_RecreateIndexes
GO
EXEC otis..sp_NCR_RecreateIndexes
EXEC ncrCommon..sp_NCR_RecreateIndexes
GO
Transact SQL :: Data Compression And Rebuilding Indexes
Aug 31, 2015If I'm doing data compression(page level) does it rebuild indexes too? and how about stats, does it update stats too?
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Apr 24, 2006I'm using SQL Server 2005 SP1 Standard.
On the Rebuild Index Task there is a checkbox at the bottom that says 'Keep index online while reindexing'.
Great I thought, I'll check that.
Later, when I tested the job, I got this error:
'Online index operations can only be performed in Enterprise edition of SQL Server.'
Why have that checkbox available to check, if I'm running a version that doesn't allow it? Where's the bug?
Thanks
Ed
Rebuilding The System Merge Repl Indexes
Jan 17, 2007Hi,
We have a client that has a large (5Gb) database replicated to 13 subscribers, the publisher is Sql 2005, the subscribers are Sql Express. The publication has as few filtered articles too. I have found that after several months of continuous running Replication Monitor is taking a long time to report history on each subscriber.
Do people tend to rebuild the indexes on the system merge replication tables on production servers, or should the standard replication jobs take care of this?
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Graham
Rebuilding Indexes On Standard Edition And DB Online.....!
Apr 30, 2008
We are using SQL 1005 Standard Edt, so online Rebuild index is not available. Any way to figure out how much time will it take to rebuild index on given size of database so i can make sure i set schedule for rebuilding index when it is okay not to answer DB traffice during that time.
Thanks,
SQL Server Admin 2014 :: How Do Physical Data Files Grow When Rebuilding Indexes
Feb 2, 2015I've been trying to get a definitive answer to this question but alas I have conflicting and patchy answers so far from other sources. I have an index that, lets say, requires 10GB of data space to rebuild..This index resides on a filegroup that spans 2 files on two seperate drives (i.e. a mdf and ndf)
When I rebuild this index how will each of these datafiles grow as the rebuild proceeds to completion? Lets for the time being remove the caveats of any other activity hitting the example index/database in question.My tests seem to show that only the mdf will grows (or the file with the lowest id in the that filegroup) provided there is enough space available in that particular file to complete the operation. The secondary ndf dat file doesnt grow at all if the mdf has enough space.
Is expected behavior? i.e. the index will be rebuilt in a contiguous manner relative to the files contained with the filegroup i.e. fileid 1 will grow till limit reached then next fileid grows etc?
Question On Space And Indexes
Jan 24, 2000We have a table with 48 million rows. The table should only be approximately
28 bytes long for each row. This table is clustered primary key consisting of
an integer key and a calculated float value. We have found that the size of the table
is doubled before statistics are gathered. There is a foreign key that references the
primary on another table. There are no other indexes. Sp_spaceused shows the
size changes in the data portion. I had worked on another DBMS system that
had no benefit on collecting statistics on a clustered value. Is this not correct for
SQL Server? Does anyone have an explaination for the size change?
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Jul 20, 2001This database is running on SQL sever 6.5.
We are running an home-created stored procedure that includes several rounds of dropping and recreating indexes in a few tables, i.e., after dropping indexes, the tables are truncated, then a lot of records will be inserted into the table, and the indexes are recreated.
we are getting the following error in turns:
1. ODBC error: Microsoft] ODBC SQL Server Driver] SQL Server]Can't
allocate space for object '-841' in database 'tempdb' because the
'system' segment is full. If you ran out of space in Syslogs,
dump the transaction log. Otherwise, use ALTER DATABASE...
We then used EM to expand the tempdb, when reran the procedure, we got the following message:
2. ODBC error: Microsoft] ODBC SQL Server Driver] SQL Server] Cannot
drop the index 'dbo.ItemBalamce_CCB_Id',because it doesn't exist in the
system catalogs.
However, when I check the mentioned index, it is certainly there.
How could this happen?
After several rounds of running theis procedure, these two error messages appeared to occur alternatively.
If you have an answer or suggestion, please let me know ASAP.
Many thanks.
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Dec 18, 2007hi all
i am under impression that indexes also stored seperately from data and need extra space . when we check in EM Table Info, size over there is just data size or sum of data and indexes. if it is just for data then is there is any space used to store indexes and that space is counted in space used by data base or else where.............. please clear my confusion.............. i am quite new in administartion of SQL Server
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Nov 19, 2007I was trying to find out how much space is available in a 2000 db for allocation to tables and indexes. I am trying to find the amount of space that has to be used-up before another allocation is automatically made to the database. I looked at sp_spaceused but BOL is rather sketchy at defining what the numbers it returns really mean. Is the "unallocated space" the value I am looking for?
Thanks,
Michael
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Jul 9, 2015I am using SQL Server 2008 (RTM) Standard Edition.
In my environment, one of my Database size is 75 gb and I have to create a plan for index rebuild using maintenance plan.But when we rebuild indexes, it requires some space on data and log files of database.how can we calculate disk space requirement for index rebuild process ?
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Jul 20, 2005Hi,I guess SQL server does not release claimed memory even if it is notused. Is there anyway to free the unused memory?Thanks,John Jayaseelan*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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Is there a way I can remove all the indexes that are not in my list without too much trouble? I.e. without having to manually go through them all individually. The list is currently in a csv file.
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